On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:59:48AM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote:
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> Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need
> software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes.
You want amanda. It's spread across a few packages in Debian:
amanda-common, amanda-client, a
on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:59:48AM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson ([EMAIL
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> Hello all,
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> Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need
> software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes.
See
Stephen J.Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need
> software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes.
Well, the obvious answer is tar (has a --multi-volume option).
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Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for everyone's input, this gives me some good places to start!
Kelly
dave brookshire wrote:
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> On the open source side of things, I'm a big fan of Amanda. You can
> find the original source and stuff at ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/amanda, or
> at http://www.amanda.org/.
>
> On the closed
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:04:53AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> "Andrew McRobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have to say that i find that "tar" covers all bases pretty well ...
> > depends what you're used to I guess.
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> There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, yo
> "Kelly" == Kelly Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kelly> Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am
Kelly> looking for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone
Kelly> knew which was the "best". Any input would be appreciated. It
Kelly> would be for an ATAPI tap
On 25 Jul 2000, Riku Saikkonen wrote:
> Has anyone tried recovering damaged .tar.bz2 files? Any success /
> failure?
Hi, guys. Here's what I did:
# cd /tmp
# tail -c 1048576 /dev/hda > t.bulk.o
# cat t.bulk.o | bzip2 -1 > t.bulk.bz2
# echo "Damage string to insert before actual bz2 image" > tm
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Has anyone tried recovering damaged .tar.bz2 files? Any success /
> > failure?
I'd also like to know about this.
> > (By the way, there is also afio, which is a command-line tool like tar
> > but compresses one file at a time. The format, of course,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes:
> "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you
> >don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses
> >globally, which means that the whole of the archive is considered o
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you
>don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses
>globally, which means that the whole of the archive is considered one
>big compressed file. If something happens to th
Gary Hennigan wrote:
> There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you
> don't want to use software compression with tar.
In addition, you should have some sort of verification that the data
written to tape is actually good. I personally have used BRU for over 5
years. Very
"Andrew McRobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have to say that i find that "tar" covers all bases pretty well ...
> depends what you're used to I guess.
There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you
don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses
globall
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Subject: Re: Tape backup software?
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tar!
> -chris
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> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote:
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> > Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking
> > for tape backup software and was wonderi
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tar!
> -chris
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking
> > for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the
> > "best". Any input would be appreci
Tar!
-chris
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking
> for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the
> "best". Any input would be appreciated. It would be for an ATAPI tape
> backup drive. THANKS
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:43:42PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking
> for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the
> "best". Any input would be appreciated. It would be for an ATAPI tape
> backup drive.
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